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ALMON ROBINSON, OF WEBSTER, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PACKAGES FOR PRINTS OF BUTTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,845, dated February 16, 1875; application filed November 12, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALMON RoBINsoN, of the town of Webster, county of And roscoggin, State of Maine, have invented a Package for Prints of Butter, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide an improved package for prints or balls of butter, in which the said balls or prints shall not come in contact with each other, and which shall also protect them from becoming soiled while being transported or handled, and which can be made at solow a cost that it need not be used but once.

This object I attain by the following means: The piece of thin wood A is creased crosswise at the lines 1 2 3 4, (shown in Fig. 4 of the accompanying drawings,) and in it the holes a a, b I), and c c are punched, for the purpose of inserting the fastening-wires DD, Figs. 1

and 3, in the manner hereafter shown. The piece 0 is then placed upon the piece A, in such manner that the fastening-wires may enter the grooves E l. The grain of the wood in the piece 0 runs in the direction of the grooves E E, and it is preferably made by sawing it from the end of a strip which has been worked by molding-tools to the required cross-section. Then upon the piece A two prints of butter are placed, one upon each side of the piece 0, the sides of which are hollowed out to permit the two prints to come nearer together, and at the same time to prevent them from slipping sidewise. Then the pieces B B, having been creased, and then bent into the form shown in Fig. 2, are inserted in the grooves F F in the piece 0, and upon them two more prints are laid. The piece A is then made to assume the shape shown in Fig. 1 by bending it at the creases 1 2 3 4, Fig. 4; and the ends of the wires D D having been inserted in the holes a a c 0, they are bent down, as shown in Fig. 2 and by the dotted line in Fig. 3, thereby holding all the parts in place.

A number of such packages, when thus completed, may be put together in a larger package of any suitable kind.

I claim- The piece A, the center piece 0, the two pieces B B, and the fastening-wires D D, combined substantially as and for the purpose described.

ALMON ROBINSON. Witnesses:

lVIARY J. ROBINSON, ELLA M. ROBINSON. 

